[egov] RE: OASIS e-GOV TECHNICAL COMMITTEE

[Borras John - Office of the e-Envoy e-Government -<john.borras@cabinet-office.x.gsi.gov.uk>]

Patrick
Just to pick up on your point about the needs of developing/transition
economy governments, in my original thinking I thought we would pick this up
under either the requirements or best practices sub-committees, or both.  We
will probably find there are groups of countries that have different
requirements across many aspects, and the developing/transition economy
governments could be one such group.  We probably need to get some of these
countries actively involved in the TC before we can make best judgement on
this aspect.

Regards,
John  

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Subject: RE: OASIS e-GOV TECHNICAL COMMITTEE


John,

This is an excellent start to begin structuring the work programme for the
e-Gov TC.

To help on your item #6, Language Translation, I have forwarded the work
programme document to Tony Jewtushenko, Chair of the OASIS XLIFF TC (XML
Localization Interchange File Format), so that any OASIS members with
expertise in Language Translation/Localization will be aware of your need
for their assistance.

If you find that this TC needs to have various documents translated into
multiple languages, please let us know.  As this is not a normal cost
associate with our TCs, we can certainly entertain proposals as to how best
to provide this service for the e-Gov TC and possibly seek sponsors for such
extra services.

Your TC may also want to consider forming a sub-committee to deal with
another aspect of different countries with e-Government planning needs.
This could be some type of effort focused on those governments in developing
and transition economies.  Many of the attendees at the Pan-European
Regional Conference in preparation for the World Summit on Information
Society (WSIS) last week in Bucharest were from governments in eastern
Europe and CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States).  While many expressed
interest in joining the e-Gov TC, they viewed their needs in
planning/implementing e-Government standards as somewhat different from
those from governments in developed countries.  So you might also consider
the needs of developing/transition economy governments in forming
sub-committees.


Best regards,

Patrick Gannon
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Subject: RE: OASIS e-GOV TECHNICAL COMMITTEE


Further to me -e-mail below, please find attached as promised the discussion
paper relating to items 3 an 4 of the agenda, ie relating to the work
programme and organisation of the TC.   Any views on this in advance of the
meeting would be appreciated.

Regards,
John

 <<Work Programme.rtf>>
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> 'robin@isogen.com'; 'mcrawford@lmi.org';
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> 'kathleen.kummer@sap.com'; 'ross@secstan.com'; 'farrukh.najmi@sun.com';
> 'carol.mcdonald@sun.com'; 'scott.clinton@sun.com'; 'feygin@unitspace.com';
> 'dick.eppleman@vertexinc.com'; 'michael.roytman@vertexinc.com';
> 'tomtuduc@webarches.com'; 'don.upson@webmethods.com';
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> Subject:	OASIS e-GOV TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
>
> Dear All
>
> Many thanks for volunteering to join the new TC.  I'm very glad to have
> you all on board for what I'm sure will be a very interesting, and very
> challenging, piece of work.
>
> First, some necessary domestic issues:
> 1.  Can those who haven't yet Subscribed to the Mailing Lists via the TC
> website please do so.  In that way we get the egov lists e-mail address
> properly organised.  Some of you may get this e-mail twice, apologies for
> that but I'm doing belt and braces for this first communication.  In
> future we will only send out to the egov list address so please make sure
> you've done the necessary.
> 2.  Also we need to publish the Membership List on the TC website .
> Attached is the draft I've pulled together of your details.  Can you
> please check your entries and let me know if there any errors/omissions.
>  << File: TC Membership List.doc >>
> 3.  Some of you have been confused about which is my correct e-mail
> address.  We are in the process of changing e-mail accounts and my new
> e-mail address from 16th December will be john.borras@e-envoy.gsi.gov.uk.
> You can use that address now and e-mails will get through to me despite
> the erratic error messages that may come back to you.
>
> Second, the arrangements for the first TC meeting.  As you will have seen
> we have set this for 13th December commencing at 10.00 EDT  (15.00 GMT).
> The face-to-face meeting will be held in the Baltimore Convention Center,
> Baltimore, USA, running in parallel with the XML 2002 conference.  See the
> following link for details of the Centre and hotels etc.
> http://www.xmlconference.org/xmlusa/ .  We will be providing a
> teleconference facility, further details to follow, for those who cannot
> make it to Baltimore, and for colleagues here in UK you can join Adrian
> Kent on the phone here in Stockley House if you wish.  To assist with the
> planning of this meeting can I ask you to confirm whether you will be:
>  i    joining me in Baltimore
>  ii   joining in via teleconference
>  iii  joining in via teleconference here in Stockley House UK.
>
> Third, the agenda for the first meeting.  As I've said we are taking on a
> very challenging piece of work, given the wide scope of business conducted
> by governments.  In addition we will have the sheer logistics of trying to
> run this committee with people participating from all round the globe.
> Finding dates, times and locations to meet will not be easy.  And so I
> think the first meeting at least will have to concentrate solely on
> planning the organisation and running of the committee and its programme
> of work.  I therefore propose the following agenda:
>
> 1.  Introductions
> 2.  Agreement of TC Charter
> 3.  Work programme
> 4.  Organisation of Committee and sub-committee(s)
> 5.  Election of officials
> 6.  Liaisons with other bodies
> 7.  Dates and locations of future meetings
>
> I'm putting together a discussion paper covering items 3 and 4 and I'll
> endeavour to get that out to you in near future.  But in the meantime if
> you have views on this provisional agenda or any other items for inclusion
> please let me know.
>
> I'll confirm final details of the first meeting and the agenda nearer the
> time, but in the meantime any thoughts on any aspect would be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> John Borras
> Assistant Director Interoperability and Infrastructure
> Office of the e-Envoy
> Cabinet Office
> United Kingdom
> Tel no. +44 20 7276 3101
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